Iran Was Violating the Nuclear Deal Even Before the U.S. Withdrew
Aided by flaws in the agreement itself.
July 24, 2019
A Forgotten Religious-Zionist Manifesto
Yehuda Leyb Don Yahya.
Today, Rabbi Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook (1865-1935) and his disciples—literal and figurative—are the thinkers most associated with religious Zionism. But even before Kook began to develop his ideas about the Jewish people’s return to its homeland, many rabbis had joined the Zionist movement. Among these was Yehuda Leyb Don Yahya, a member of a family of Russian Chabad Ḥasidim and a leading disciple of one of the most prominent rabbis of his day, the fiercely anti-Zionist Ḥayyim Soloveitchik. Don Yahya published a pamphlet in 1901 in which he sought to reconcile traditional views of messianic redemption with Theodor Herzl’s secular, political Zionism. Bezalel Naor summarizes his ideas:
July 24, 2019
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Pope Francis should step in on their behalf.
Turning a Celebrated Athlete into a Pawn in Israel’s Game
Mariano Rivera gets canceled.
From Playing the Trumpet with Dizzy Gillespie to Blowing an Antelope-Horn Shofar
Jennie Litvack, in memoriam.
A Forgotten Religious-Zionist Manifesto
Yehuda Leyb Don Yahya.